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🌏 文化：China’s 56 Ethnic Groups

Like any country, Mainland China includes both a dominant culture (that of the Han Chinese people) and many other cultures from ethnic groups. Here are some resources to help you better understand China’s 56 ethnic groups.

The Mongols, Tibetans, Manchus, and Naxi
by Keith Dede from Asia Society

“This essay provides a backdrop for understanding that China, like many places in the world, faces challenges about how to reconcile national borders with ethnic ones. The arguments surrounding these debates are very complex, with groups invoking history in different ways to legitimize their opposing stances.”

A lot of people might be tempted to think that the People’s Republic of China is an extremely ethnically homogeneous country, and strictly judging by ethnic identification on the official government census, they would be considered justified for thinking that, but today we’re going to look at the man ethnic groups of the PRC, and why ethnicity and language in China is such a confusing topic.

China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
by Lindsay Maizland from the Council on Foreign Relations

“More than a million Muslims have been arbitrarily detained in China’s Xinjiang region. The reeducation camps are just one part of the government’s crackdown on Uyghurs.”

A glimpse of China’s 56 ethnic groups’ traditional women’s clothing. Nowadays, some people wear these traditional clothes regularly, while others wear them only for special events and celebrations. Traditional clothing is one of the main ways that these cultures are visually identified and represented in modern China.
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